Nope
Iāve never used anything from Campagnolo in my life but hey this is only $65 + $37 for BB which is super cheap now. How bad of an idea is this? Is the removal as much of a pain in the ass as it used to be?
Power Torque = bad.
Ultra Torque = good.
The removal tool is a two-jaw bearing puller with cardboard to protect the back of the crank but Park has an alternate method:
They eventually made a coupLE PT cranks that removed with an autoextractor bolt, donāt know which ones , or which this is.
Just the number of tools in that picture makes me think itās not worth it
Interesting, I didnāt know this.
I will say, itās annoying but not insurmountable. I have a set of aluminum Centaur cranks on an old cross bike that gets loaned out frequently and Iāve only had to change the bearings once. I used a harbor freight bearing puller and a piece of tube to protect the crank.
Itās just amazing they didnāt give muchā¦or any thought to maintenance on the first go āround.
I mean letās be realistic here
I have 3 bikes I hardly maintain and run them into the ground until an overhaul is necessary
How many others are out there like me
what is a āclean your bikeā?
my loose heuristic is the āfailure curveā, where you want to start doing maintanence work right before different parts of the bike start fucking up other parts of the bike. like, avoid the steep part of the curve by doing as little work as possible and youāre probably going to be ok.
That and I usually make repairs based on how noisy and annoying a problem is. Slow leak in a tubeless tire? Month. persistent creak in a bb? fixed by the end of the week.
Creaks and ticks are immediate
Brake pads need fixing? Eh isnāt there a supply chain thing Iāll just dial them a lil tighter
No maintenance, only dither
I ran the same type of bb (Veloce with power torque) on my Yeti CX race biek way back when, had zero troubles and the removal isnāt that bad as people make it out. I made do with a simple bearing puller type jobber from the hardware store and never had to remove the bearing from the NDS crank arm. I suspect that would be the most cumbersome job but for that type of money Iād give it a whirl
man i love old light alu cx bikes. i still miss my bianchi axis
i do not miss my empella bonfire one bit
also do not miss the van dessel i had
i didnāt know much about bikes then. it was my first light bike and my first bike i used clipless on. it was fun as hell
best photo i can find right now. too cool for school.
i was so jealous of those. i loved the weird checkered flag lookin thing on the paint
That thing is fuckin sick
Is there a non-Crank Bros way to get long axle SPD pedals? Or a less bad CB pedal?
I think my X-Tracks are too narrow for a spacer to do anything and Iām out of adjustment on the shoe.
Issi?